TURKISH Cypriot ‘Prime Minister’ Mehmet Ali Talat yesterday set about working towards forming a new administration after his Republican Turkish Party (RTP) secured nearly 45 per cent of the vote in Sunday’s parliamentary elections.
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Yoel Gabriel from Tel Aviv stated in his letter of February 16 that, “Surely its better for all for Cyprus to stay divided”. However, the opposite conclusion can be reached if we examine ethnic problems in other states.
THERE was mixed reaction from the Greek Cypriot side to the election results in the north, with parties who had backed the Annan plan welcoming the victory of the Republican Turkish Party, while rejectionist parties said nothing had changed.
THE HOUSE of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee has called on the British government to authorise direct flights to the north, criticising the Cyprus government for being un-European, and the Turkish Cypriots for not allowing Greek Cypriot trade to go north.
THE Cyprus Tourism Organisation (CTO) is redrawing criteria for the classification of hotels as part of a plan to reposition the island on the tourist map, chairman Photis Photiou said yesterday.
POLICE have dismissed claims that they had prevented an ambulance driver from picking up a boy during last weekend’s big Nicosia derby game between APOEL and Omonia at the GSP Stadium.
Speaking to the Cyprus Mail, Police spokesman Demetris Demetriou said the incident had been grossly exaggerated.
A GRAND total of £112 million will be added to state coffers as a result of the taxation of secret accounts which were declared within the framework of the government’s temporary tax amnesty, Chairman of the House Finance Committee Aristos Chrysostomou said yesterday.
THE EUROPEAN Commission’s trade and aid package for the Turkish Cypriots will be discussed by President Tassos Papadopoulos and Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn over a working breakfast in Brussels tomorrow.
The prospect of resuming the Cyprus peace process is also expected to be raised at the fist meeting between the two men, since Rehn only took up his duties in November.
DOZENS of tractors and combine harvesters lined the highways and major roundabouts yesterday as wheat growers distributed leaflets arguing their case for state support to save their trade.
ENGOMI municipality is caught up in a row with the Archbishopric over the latter’s alleged failure to transfer the title deed of a local cemetery.
The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.
